3 papers
cs.CL2026
Beyond Polarization: The Generative Constraint of Chain-of-Thought in Pointwise Reranking
Xiaoyang Chen, Jie Liu, Haijin Liang +5
In pointwise document reranking, Chain-of-Thought models typically underperform direct scoring models. While existing diagnostics attribute this to inferior classification, score p…
cs.IR2026
Rank4Gen: RAG-Preference-Aligned Document Set Selection and Ranking
Yongqi Fan, Yuxiang Chu, Zhentao Xia +9
In the RAG paradigm, document ranking determines the evidence available to downstream generators. Through controlled analysis, we identify two phenomena underexplored by existing r…
cs.IR2025
TFRank: Think-Free Reasoning Enables Practical Pointwise LLM Ranking
Yongqi Fan, Xiaoyang Chen, Dezhi Ye +6
Reasoning-intensive ranking models built on Large Language Models (LLMs) have made notable progress. However, existing approaches often rely on large-scale LLMs and explicit Chain-…